NELLIE BLY (Elizabeth J. Cochrane), one of the most famous reporters in history, set forth on this date in 1889 in her well-publicized attempt to make it around the world in less than the 80 days used by Jules Verne’s fictional Phileas Fogg. She was 25 years old. The newspaper employing Nellie at the time […]

NELLIE BLY STARTED HER TRIP AROUND THE WORLD: NOVEMBER 14th, 1889